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UFV hosts Learning Outcomes Project open house
Nearly 100 participants helped outline the knowledge, skills, abilities and values that every UFV student should develop – from communication skills to environmental awareness. University staff, faculty, and students were joined by community members at UFV’s Institutional Learning Outcomes open house on Thursday afternoon in Abbotsford to have their input on the subject. “It was…UFV Chandigarh hosts second annual Terry Fox Run
UFV students are keeping the spirit of Terry Fox alive, worldwide. Recently, more than 50 UFV students at the UFV campus in Chandigarh, India visited over 30 schools to talk about Terry Fox and the Terry Fox Foundation. The students were promoting the second annual Terry Fox Run in Chandigarh — an event that drew…Celebrating nursing students with pizza and prizes
The UFV Nursing department recently hosted a pizza lunch for its students, faculty and staff on the Chilliwack campus. The event included a prize wheel with numerous giveaways for students.New UFV Clearbrook centre hosts Continuing Studies, ABT, and other
If you take a Continuing Studies course from the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, chances are that it will be at UFV’s newest location. UFV Continuing Studies has moved from the Marshall Road annex to a newly renovated space on the bottom floor of the Clearbrook library. The Clearbrook centre provides 15,000 square…Chilliwack’s new campus at the Canada Education Park
Chilliwack's new campus at the Canada Education Park is set to open in May 2012. UFV Today bloggers were lucky enough to receive a tour recently so we could share an update with the rest of the UFV community. Check out our video and pictures.Photo contest for the whole UFV community
Show us your best photos! Help us increase the visibility of student, staff, faculty, and alumni photographic talent in a lasting way. Send your photos in to our contest. Submissions will contribute to a permanent collage displayed in the ETS student computing lab, on our 28’ wide x 11’ high wall. There is no size…Are you interested in studying tropical biology in Ecuador?
Summer in Ecuador has a nice ring to it as we slog through winter in the Fraser Valley. How about studying tropical biology in Equador? The course will be an eight-credit course with lecture and field trip components. Classroom work will be carried out in the short summer semester (May 7 to June 23) and…Crosstown rivalry goes big time: Cascades take on Trinity at
UFV men's and women's basketball teams take on their "down-the-freeway" rivals the TWU Spartan in the big house: Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre, this Sat, Jan 28 The UFV Cascades will host their "cross-Valley" rivals Trinity Western Spartans in Canada West basketball games at Abbotsford Entertainment & Sports Centre this Saturday.…Dead Man’s Cell Phone held over at UFV Theatre
Due to several performance cancellations due to severe weather conditions, the production has been held over until Jan 29, with performances at 7:30 pm on Thurs, Fri, and Sat, Jan 26-28, and a 2 pm matinee on Sun, Jan 29. Contact 604-795-2814 or theatre@ufv.ca for tickets. (UFV employees note: the production features UFV English professor…UFV involved in community celebrations for would-be scientists of all
Do you want to learn more about biology, geography, mathematics, physics, chemistry or perhaps agriculture and computer information systems? These are just a few of the UFV’s science-related activities and displays featured at the upcoming 2012 Community Science Celebration and Careers in Science events. UFV’s Faculty of Science and the UFV Alumni Association are…UFV English professor takes part in Dead Man’s Cell Phone
UFV's Virginia Cooke, who is playing a role in the production of Dead Man's Cell Phone, was recently featured in an article by the Langley Advance. By Roxanne Hooper Old enough to take retirement seminars seriously, Fort Langley's Virginia Cooke has no aspirations of growing up to be an actor. But as a university English…UFV alumnus reinvents the strip mall
A UFV alumnus has a vision for Abbotsford’s downtown core that reimagines it with some new and sustainable design concepts. Scott Varga (BA '11) has entered a contest called Strip Appeal, put on by the University of Alberta, which asks participants to re-invent the standard North-American strip mall. While the winners are being selected…